Computers Quote by Donna Tartt

“Sometime later the islanders on a little rimward atoll were amazed to find, washed into their little local lagoon, the wave-rocked corpse of a…

— Terry Pratchett

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls,…

— Mark Ruffalo

“No living creature should have to feel so exposed in death, washed up on the beach in mangled meat of bloody distortion.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

“The whole island was stained in blood and haunted with the dead. Horror stories lay beneath every square foot of this awful place, and…

— John Dixon Phoenix Island

“We saw fouled beaches, dead wildlife, destroyed wetlands, unemployed fishermen, bankrupt tourism businesses, depressed local economies, ruined communities.”

— Jaden Skye

“I put a gentle hand to my chest as I surveyed the situation. The turquoise blue swimming pool some distance behind the lawn was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I knew from experience that before you went swimming off a dock for the first time each summer, you needed to check the sides…

— Jennifer Echols

“Day after day, day after day, 115 We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. [Sidenote:…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had…

— Virginia Woolf

The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an…

— Ross Macdonald

“Battered by shifing currents and a cold, unrelenting wind, we sailed past deserted islands crowded with pines and a ghost tree growing staight out…

— Marisha Pessl

“It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in…

— Terry Pratchett